Usa avant garde jazz musician sun ra stars in the movie version of his concept album. Jennifer coates explores the allegorical role the yamanote has played on film. A shot taken when the camera stays in one place on a tripod, for example but. Not following a linear plot line, this experimental film is a bizarre combination of social commentary, blaxploitation, science fiction, and concert performance. One thing for sure though, space is the place has got to be the very defination of a cult classic. It was directed by john coney, written by sun ra and. It is an odd artifact, a hybrid of science fiction, blaxploitation and too little avantgarde jazz. You can purchase a limited edition poster designed for the film here. My visits to space centres which are outlined here on the home page and on the second page. Space is the place offers otherworldly takes on identity. Sun ra space age prophet, pharoanic jester, shamanphilosopher and avantjazz. They undertake a directed activity of completion, guided by what the film. The resulting 60minute film includes multiple public and private. Music for the film licensed to youtube by merlin virtual label llc on behalf of enterplanetary koncepts.
See more ideas about space theme, space crafts and outer space theme. My models of spacecraft and some of the history behind them, which is the main topic of the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth pages. The man explains his credentials to sun ra, and says that hes afraid of his family getting forced onto the street or onto welfare. Sun ra gives him a speech about work on outer planes. Sun ra cosmic centenary, space is the place live in the berklee performance center duration. Space is the place is an 85minute afrofuturist science fiction film made in 1972 and released in 1974. Space is the place offers otherworldly takes on identity the avantgarde jazz musician sun ra in john coneys underground fantasy space is the place. Praise be to sun ra, but no credit to the white director, producers, and writers involved. At the outer space employment agency, a man walks into the door. It was directed by john coney, written by sun ra and joshua smith, and features sun ra and his arkestra.
Sun ras cinematic vehicle of alterdestiny and afrofuturism, space is the place is a combination neoblaxploitation, scifi, performance footage. Beautifully shot with vivid colors and eye catching production design, space is the place imaginatively captures the essence of blaxploitation cinema and afrofuturism in one ambitious and ideologically driven film. In the film, as in life, sun ra is the quintessential outsider and space is a metaphorical eden for this much put upon black man. Space is the place has the requisite style and sexuality of blaxploitation cinema, and spares the violence and generic title score. Usa avantgarde jazz musician sun ra stars in the movie version of his concept album space is the place. Sun ra the space age prophet lands his spaceship in oakland, having been presumed lost in space for a few years. With barbara deloney, sun ra, raymond johnson, erika leder. Blackness and utopia afroam 690e, spring 20 graduate seminar, w. My space is the place website consists of two main parts. Sun ras cinematic vehicle of alterdestiny and afrofuturism, space is the place is. Yael messer will present local art works that imagine the day after the completion of the zionist project. Du bois department of afroamerican studies, instructor. Ensures constant screen space and constant screen direction.